The number of U.S. households with only a cellular phone ? no landline ? has skyrocketed since 1998, with the trend driven by younger Americans, according to a new Census Bureau report.

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The number of U.S. households with only a cellular phone - no landline - has skyrocketed since 1998, with the trend driven by younger Americans, according to a new Census Bureau report.

The share of households with landlines fell from 96 percent in 1998 to 71 percent in 2011, according to the report. It shows that in 2011, 28 percent of households had only a cellular phone, with no landline, up from less than 1 percent in 1998, when the data were first collected.